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 ====== VuFind Summit 2018 ======
-===== Acknowledgements =====
-// Part of the cost of this year's conference was funded through a generous donation from Agilent Technologies, Inc., a global company focused in the life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. //
-===== Cost and Registration =====
-Registration costs are $60 per person. Registration covers both days of the conference and will include light breakfast and lunch. Speakers accepted into the final schedule do not have to pay and are not required to register (apart from the submission of their talk proposal).
-Registration is open now through September 30, 2018: [[https://library.villanova.edu/events/conferences/vufind-summit-2018-registration-form|REGISTER HERE]].
 ===== Dates and Location =====
-The 2018 developers summit will take place at Villanova University on October 15 and 16, 2018.
+The 2018 developers summit took place at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library on October 15 and 16, 2018.
-===== Transportation and Lodgings =====
-Some lodging options can be found [[http://vustuff.org/vustuff/tech-superfecta/where-stay/|here]]; see the Villanova site for [[http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/admission/visit/maps.html|transportation suggestions]].
+===== Video Recordings =====
-===== Call for Proposals =====
+Recordings of all presentations are available in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqYOItbXBG0&list=PL5_8_wT3JpgG4y78GgPEjfyDbLPj5-CqS|VuFind® Summit 2018 YouTube Playlist]].
-We are currently accepting proposals for 20-minute talks (and we would be willing to accommodate longer talks if the subject matter justified them). Subjects could include new features (existing or proposed), implementation details (architecture or key technologies), inspiration (user feedback, design patterns, best practices), interesting VuFind instances (special projects, etc.) or anything else touching on VuFind or related projects. Please submit proposals to Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu).
+===== Shared Conference Documents =====
-Proposals must be submitted by Friday, September 14, 2018.
+Shared Google Docs used for the conference can be found here: [[http://tinyurl.com/vusummit2018]].
-===== Remote Participation =====
+The Twitter hashtag for the event was [[https://twitter.com/hashtag/VuFind18|#VuFind18]].
-As with past events, we plan to record and live-stream the structured portion of the event. More details will be forthcoming as the schedule is finalized.
 ===== Schedule =====
-:!: This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change.
 ==== Day 1 ====
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 :00 -  9:30 Registration, light refreshments
-:30 - 10:15 Demian Katz - State of the Project, Q&A
+:30 - 10:30 Demian Katz - State of the Project, Q&A
-:15 - 10:30 TBD
 :30 - 10:45 Break
-:45 - 11:15 TBD
+:45 - 11:15 Chris Hallberg - The Front-ier: The Distant Future of the Front-End
-:15 - 12:00 TBD
+:15 - 12:00 Cliff Missen - The eGranary Digital Library: Progress and Challenges
 :00 -  1:00 LUNCH (provided)
 :00 -  2:15 VuFind Roadmapping Session
 :15 -  2:30 Break
-:30 -  3:00 TBD
+:30 -  3:00 Michelle Suranofsky - Integrating VuFind with External APIs: Lessons Learned
 :00 -  4:30 HackFest / Break-out Sessions
-:00 Dinner at Gullity's (on your own)
+:00 Dinner at Gullifty's (on your own)
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 ==== Detailed Talk Descriptions ====
-=== Demian Katz - State of the Project, Q&A ===
+=== Demian Katz, Villanova University - State of the Project, Q&A ===
 In this talk, Demian will review what is new and what has changed since the last Summit as well as discuss some areas of future work that may help inform discussion during the afternoon's roadmapping session, where decisions will be made about the direction of the next major release. Time will be included for Q&A.
-// Additional talk descriptions coming soon.... //
+[[https://vufind.org/docs/summit2018/katz.ppt|Slides]]
+=== Chris Hallberg, Villanova University - The Front-ier: The Distant Future of the Front-End ===
+In VuFind 5.0, much of the focus was on improving the back-end, server-side code. This means that the front-end code may be due for some new updates and improvements during the next development cycle. In this talk, Chris looks ahead to some possible goals, benefits and challenges to inspire conversation during roadmapping.
+[[https://vufind.org/docs/summit2018/hallberg.pptx|Slides]]
+=== Ere Maijala, National Library of Finland - Scaling Solr (lightning talk) ===
+This presentation discusses docValues, Shards/Replicas and deep paging and their implications for a large-scale Solr installation.
+[[https://vufind.org/docs/summit2018/maijala.pdf|Slides]]
+=== Cliff Missen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - The eGranary Digital Library: Progress and Challenges ===
+The off-line eGranary Digital Library, a project to bring information to areas of the world without Internet connectivity, has utilized VUFind for the last ten years. This talk looks at the project's progress and challenges in updating and expanding its search system.
+[[https://vufind.org/docs/summit2018/missen.pptx|Slides]]
+=== Michelle Suranofsky, Lehigh University - Integrating VuFind with External APIs: Lessons Learned ===
+Lehigh's VuFind installation has required integration with a variety of external systems, and some of this work has led to new features in the core VuFind distribution. In this talk, Michelle will discuss some of the challenges encountered during integration and how they were overcome, as well as looking ahead to other future possibilities for connecting VuFind with third-party systems.
+[[https://vufind.org/docs/summit2018/suranofsky.pdf|Slides]]
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